AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A Colorado man convicted of stabbing two other men during a drunken brawl sparked by racial slurs outside a Maine bar has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.
Jacob Lynn Hitchcock was sentenced by a judge Thursday in Kennebec County Superior Court to serve two years and three months of a seven-year term, with the remainder suspended for three years. He was also ordered to cover his victims’ medical bills.
Prosecutors say the 27-year-old Hitchcock, of Bennett, Colorado, was working on a pipeline installation project in Maine last November when he went to a Hallowell bar for drinks with co-workers.
Prosecutors say the fight started when Hitchcock used racial slurs against a black man at the bar.
The Kennebec Journal (https://bit.ly/1tW9xWY ) reports that Hitchcock expressed regret in court.
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Information from: Kennebec Journal, https://www.kjonline.com/
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